Test 3 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and Katoma, part 55: the…

wait, why'd the horse start begging?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, horse start · What happens: wait, beg

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 463 «Russian Fairy Tales, Prince Ivan and Katoma, part 55: the Princess ties Prince Ivan to her carriage and Katoma is left on a stump» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 begging	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 begging	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 begging	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 start	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	compound
7	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 begging	nsubj
8	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beg speech: request	gerund	the horse start						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It got scared of him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	It					scared property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Katoma beat it with iron chunks till it cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beat	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 chunks	case
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chunks	compound
6	chunks	chunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 beat	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 cried	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 beat	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Katoma	it				with iron chunks	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with chunk=Instrument
2	cry speech: express	past	it						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because Katoma starved it for days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 starved	mark
2	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 starved	nsubj
3	starved	starve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 starved	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 starved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past	Katoma	it			day		tree rules

Option 4

Katoma whipped it with a rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Katoma	Katoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 whipped	nsubj
2	whipped	whip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whipped	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rope	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whip	past	Katoma	it				with a rope	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with rope=Co-Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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